How to Use jackass in a Sentence

jackass

noun
  • Some jackass spilled his drink on my shoes.
  • The call of the jackass penguin might seem like a far cry from human speech.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020
  • So the four menu items with C’s in the descriptions were cat, dog, crab, and jackass.
    — Todd Etter, WIRED, 30 June 2010
  • Some jackasses were even snapping branches off trees and building fires.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Look at how the Feds are trying to blame our flag for this one jackass shooting everybody.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Politics is stubborn, like an angry jackass with shampoo on its head.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • No more squeezing your tuxedo into the confines of a wetsuit and then waddling around like a jackass with a bird on your head.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The teams to draw them were an equal number of jackasses and emaciated horses that had seen better days.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018
  • For some people, the signature role of Murphy's career is that of a talking jackass.
    — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • These women need to police their behavior around this jackass of a man so that Hannah can feel comfortable?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The jackass in question was Raymond, the wild horse herd’s only mule who is notorious for his antics.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2019
  • In less than 15 years, then, the jackasses have developed a spacecraft that has become something of a jack-of-all-trades.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Only a complete jackass would just spring them on an unsuspecting audience.
    — The Washington Post, 23 June 2020
  • Think about the jackass, who probably isn’t enjoying a stunning pink-purple sunset.
    — Tim Zientek, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
  • If killing his own brother and threatening his niece and nephew wasn't an indicator enough, Euron is a jackass.
    — Rawan Eewshah, Allure, 24 July 2017
  • The playful creatures are also known as jackass penguins because their call is similar to the braying of a donkey.
    — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
  • Emerson quotes aside, this guy is an arrogant jackass presenting himself as a monarch to a group of people who have no reason to pledge their fealty.
    — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The literal president, Barack Obama, had called him a jackass.
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Hey, Joe and fellow travelers, don’t act like your party moniker, the donkey, or more precisely, like jackasses.
    — David Holahan, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Idol would be nothing without encouraging at least a few contestants to make absolute jackasses of themselves in front of the cameras.
    — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018
  • There is something new, though, about doing so while also being honest with your preconceptions about the restaurant and its clientele; to do so is to risk coming off like a jackass in the process.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023
  • His deputy Officer Dixon played by Sam Rockwell is an immature jackass and racist bully who lives with his mother.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The experience of the story is different as Jeselnik explains it to me sincerely rather than as an onstage jackass.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Good riddance to a jackass whose death will undoubtedly play a part in creating more obstacles for the Hawkins heroes in Season 5.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 5 July 2022
  • Head jackass Johnny Knoxville is in prosthetics as his old-man character Irving Zisman.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Colbert imagines a jackass cereal advertisement that blackmails you into buying more sugary breakfast food.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 18 Dec. 2015
  • The story is about a jackass who grows a bare sliver of a heart, a template that Marvel would beat into the ground in the years to come but that was not yet established in 2008.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In its most positive connotation, the word jackass refers to someone who pushes the boundaries of human physical capabilities for the sake of having a good time.
    — Maren Larsen, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Still, the show never gets beyond Russ being a showboating jackass and Chad being the low-IQ projection of a showboating jackass.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Liam Gallagher lived his twenties and thirties as rock’s maximum jackass, greeting the world middle fingers first as the front man of the 1990s-defining band Oasis.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019

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